Auckland Point, or Matangi Awhio was a pa, kainga or
seasonal camping site from at least the fifteenth century.
Henry Thompson, representative of the Government-appointed
Trustees of Native Reserves, recognised...

Māori started trading with Europeans from the late 18th
Century: with Captain Cook’s crews in the 1770s,
Bellingshausen’s Russian expedition in 1820, D'Urville’s
officers and men in 1827, and whalers and sealers in the
1820s...